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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From Putting People First
Museums and libraries in a digital age
The Futures of Learning blog, which is associated with a MacArthur Foundation project, just announced a new blog series that reports on the literature review conducted...
From The Noisy Channel
SIGIR
At long last, SIGIR 2009 has posted the program for the Industry Track! It will take place on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 during the regular conference program (in...
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Approach and Identify
Back on my 30th birthday, my wife gave me a copy of Logan’s Run, with a card ensuring me that I’d found sanctuary. The joke is probably lost on those who haven’t...
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Approach and Identify
Back on my 30th birthday, my wife gave me a copy of Logan’s Run, with a card ensuring me that I’d found sanctuary. The joke is probably lost on those who haven’t...
From Wild WebMink
Fighting Fund for the Big WOBber
You'll remember my recent posting about the fine work journalist Brenno de Winter has been doing in his spare time, bringing a little healing daylight into local...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Inside the Mind of the Shopper Published
Herb Sorensen book is now out Inside the Mind of the Shopper: The Science of Retailing, from Wharton School Publishing. It details some of his work exploring how...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Berners-Lee on Linked Data
This ReadWrite Web post points to a good TED talk by Tim Berners-Lee and give you an overview of the topic of Linked Data. With the suggestion that this is the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft's Retail Experience Center
A look at Microsoft's retail experience center.
From The Noisy Channel
Where Have All The Google Killers Gone?
Harry McCracken at Technologizer just posted “A Brief History of Google
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Where Have All The Google Killers Gone?
Harry McCracken at Technologizer just posted “A Brief History of Google
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Great Press, But Where Are The Customers?
One of the things I love about being in the enterprise search /
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Great Press, But Where Are The Customers?
One of the things I love about being in the enterprise search /
From Putting People First
How the Mobile Phone Became an
The Sydney Morning Herald reports on a study of more than 1000 workers which shows that the mobile phone does not make people any more rushed or pressured for time...
From Putting People First
Mobile Literacy
Our friends at Adaptive Path have posted some information on a design and research project that aimed to understand how mobile technology can work more effectively...
From Putting People First
New media practices in China, Korea, India, Brazil, Japan and Ghana
The blog series on New Media Practices in International Contexts, which I announced in January, is now complete. It covers the unique characteristics of digital...
From CSDiary
CMU Commencement 2009 Caught on GigaPan
This past weekend was incredibly busy, not only with the launch of the CIFellows Project, but also with a full slate of CMU commencement activities. Jeffrey Baker...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bookmarks in the Recession
Time interview of Martin Lindstrom, who's Buyology book I have mentioned here a number of times. How Shoppers Make Decisions in a Recession, interesting thought...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Reinventing university education? Practical ideas
Yesterday, John stressed that education is about helping people discover their passion. I have many brilliant students, but few passionate students.
From The Noisy Channel
Copying TREC is the Wrong Track for the Enterprise
Otis just wrote a post in which he cited the Open Relevance Project, an embryonic effort by the Lucene project to build a free, public information retrieval evaluation...
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